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As parents are sending their children back to school, somewhere in the heaviness of Killeen’s hot, sweltering August air, I seem to be hearing “Hallelujah” choruses rising up all across the neighborhoods.

Gone are the days where children go to school to just learn the three R’s: Reading, ’Riting and ’Rithmetic (it’s a good thing those days are gone, because they apparently should have been learning “Spelling” as well). Those days of learning the basics are gone, but not because the “three R’s” are no longer essential, but because there are so many other things our children need to learn as well.

Instead of note pads and Indian tablets, children now are learning from and writing on I-pads and Microsoft tablets. Chalk boards have been replaced by marker boards or even Promethean “smartboards.”

I am all for technology and making sure our kids are taught by the best teachers who are paid the best salaries (full disclosure: my wife, sister, brother, niece and various other families members are teachers). But as an education minister, I also believe that the best things that educate a chi……………. continues on The Killeen Daily Herald